BeckDMB's Q&A profile

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums VBA Userform Control of multiple userform controls

  I have built a data entry VBA application in Excel so we can input data electronically instead of manually on paper only. I created a series of Userforms to display one at a time to "walk thru" the test procedure and allow entry of the data for one section at a time. The problem I have is that I am trying to use the standard form controls "frmTest.Hide" or "Unload Me" when done with the forms. Then if I wish to redisplay one or more of the forms for re-entry use "Load frmTest" and/or just frmtest.Show if old form just hidden. I am seeing that the old forms are not hiding or unloading and worse when I try to redisplay with either the "Load frmTest" if previously unloaded and "frmTest.show" I get a VBA error that it cannot display ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development FLAC files?

  Hi, I have an album on my hard drive, but I can't play it using windows media player because it's in FLAC format, can someone please tell me what this file is as i've never heard of it until now. Thanx for any help in advance FLAC is a format for audio files (Free Lossless Audio Codec). As for how to get it to play, that's a question for the Windows Media Player newsgroup: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/community/newsgroups/WindowsMedia/default.mspx dg=microsoft.public.windowsmedia.player&lang=en&cr=US My guess is that you'll probably end up needing some tool to convert it to WAV. ...Show All

• SQL Server Help with SQL

  I have a table named "policy_details" having four columns called policy_details(varchar),effectdate(datetime),Historyid(int) and policy_status(varchar). I want to keep only the maximum historyid records in "policy_details" where policy_details and effectdate should be equal and policy_status should be '30240084' . I want to delete the remaining records where policy_details and effectdate should be equal and policy_status should be '30240084'. Cheers Praveen Hello, After some research, I tested out this syntax which works: DELETE c FROM (SELECT * FROM (SELECT RANK() OVER (PARTITION BY policy_details,CONVERT(CHAR(10),effectdate,103) ORDER BY historyid DESC) as num FROM po ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Please help with save/open,rounding off.

  Hi Can someone please help me, I'm new to visual basic. I would like to know how does one code save or open and what file format would be best How do I stop the program from rounding off calculations, e.g. 12.50 to 13.00. I want it to show 12.50. Thank you very much. If you are doing financial calculations, you will want to use the decimal type. Float will present problems after 15 significant digits see a post I did on double weirdness...but it should be fine for two. <g> Examples are some of the best way to learn. Check out some of the VB/C# examples for the basic operations or some more robust examples as found in the Starter Kits . Also there are 101 Samples for Visual Stu ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. MICROSOFT SOFTWARE LICENSE TERMS

    · use the software for commercial software hosting services hey we have byed a web site hosting sulution from commercial hosting services  and we are gonna make some tuts and starter kids  is the the good bye to all the commity tuts you can download on the net and games we are allso planed to let users download out starter kids GarageGames is doing some ileagly they are commercial company Scope of License. The software is licensed, not sold. This agreement only gives you some rights to use the software. Microsoft reserves all other rights. Unless applicable law gives you more rights despite this limitation, you may use the software only as expressly permitted in this agreement. In ...Show All

• .NET Development C# Triple DES encrypt, getting long string of AAAAAAA ?

  Something doesnt seem right. I encrypt my string and the encrypted result is a long string of A's followed by an "=" sign. ideas Try decrypting it and see if you get your string back ;). If not, you better post your code. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Deployment, Testing and MsBuild

  We're trying to establish a better build philosophy/strategy for our environment. We are developing a system that controls devices connected to various servers. There are 40 devices in total connected via serial ports. There are 12 servers involved in the system, each running windows services we've written in C#. In order to test the changes we currently mstsc to each server, stop the services, re-register the new build, then start the service back up. This is quite time consuming and we are doing 6-10 builds a day. Testing can only be done when the entire system is online as the 40 devices work in unison to produce a desired function. One solution put forward to speed deployment (and testing) is to write another service that sits ...Show All

• Visual Studio unable to start debugging on the web server

  Hi Folks, After Installing Framework 2.0 i started getting error : unable to start debugging on the web server. I am using VS 2003 for debugging and .NET 2.0 and before it was working fine with .NET 1.1. I read some where that i cannot use VS 2003 with .NET FRA 2.0 if any one can forward me the link for this rule etc. will be great help. Regards http://blogs.msdn.com/jmstall/archive/2005/11/30/everett_cant_debug_Whidbey.aspx Does that link answer your question ...Show All

• Windows Forms Not able to enable/disable the toolstripbutton through vb.net code

  can anyone pl let me know how to enable/disable a toolstripbutton through vb.net code, i have tried following code but having the toolstripbutton doesnt disable... i am creating an object of a form in another form and trying to disable the toolstrip button of that form ......... Private objConsistencyMain As New frmConsistencyMain objConsistencyMain.ToolStripButton2.Enabled = False Thanks in Advance Thanks Ravi Try writing it like this: objConsistencyMain.Show() objConsistencyMain.ToolStripButton2.Enabled = False ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Linq To SQL class designer problem

  I watched Scott Guthrie's video on http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu where he demos the new Linq To SQL class designer. He mentiones that one can create classes and let the designer create the tables in the database, which is great. I was trying to do that and failed. Does anyone have a link to a walk-through demo or something I created a very simple class diagram with 3 associations and 2 derived classes, 5 classes all together, I set the primary keys and the table names on all the classes. I then right clicked the diagram in the solution explorer and clicked "Run Custom Tool", then nothing... Any ideas Best regards Klaus Enevoldsen There is nothing to stop you from creating your ...Show All

• Visual Basic ActiveX Cant Create Object

  Hi All, I use automation in my access application for creating emails, word documents etc, now suddenly for whatever reason on my development machine, I get the error "ActiveX Cannot Create Object"... I thought it might be the fact that some references were changed by another developer, however my older versions of the apps which only I have changed and have all my references is having the same issue. I am sorry for the lack of reproducing this error, im at a bit of a blank and dont know where to start... Any ideas Barry Andrew wrote: Hi All, I use automation in my access application for creating emails, word documents etc, now suddenly for whatever reason on my development machine, I get the error &qu ...Show All

• SQL Server Foreach Loop Issue

  Here is what I am attempting to get accomplished. I have an SSIS package that contains a Foreach loop container. This container executes a number of SQL tasks in order: SQL Task 1, SQL Task 2, SQL Task 3. if the SQL task 1 succeeds it should flow on to SQL Task 2 and 3. This works fine when the SQL tasks do not fail... In the event of any SQL Task failing control should flow to a send mail task to alert about the failure. Next the Foreach loop container should go to the next enumeration in the Foreach loop container and start the next new SQL task 1. So far I have been able to get the control to flow to the send mail task when a SQL Task fails. What does not work is when one SQL Task fails the entire Foreach loop fails and does no ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista DeviceTopology for Volume control

  hi, using WASAPI i'm able to change the volume of Master Volume control. But how to change the volume of rcording control devices ...Show All

• Visual C# Threading functions and semaphores cuestion

  Hello. I'm experimenting with threads with the MSDN documentation, but there are a point that i don't understand. If I have: public Semaphore MySemaphore = new Semaphore(1,1); MyFunction(string MyString)     {     string[] sArray = MyString.Split(';');     for (int i=0;i<sArray.Length;i++)         {         [--] (.. lot of code and local variables..)         }     MySemaphore.WaitOne();     [..] (.. send results ..)     MySemaphore.Release()     } Event throw ... ( .. for example data arrival in a listen socket. ...) { Thread MyNewTh ...Show All

• SQL Server Backup Device vs backup command

  Hi, Will backup get completed quickly (the time taken for backing up large databases) on backup device or using backup command If backup device, why If SQL Server stripes physical devices that have different input/output (I/O) throughputs, SQL Server optimizes for speed. This means that faster devices receive more backup data that is written to disk than the slower device in the same period of time. In SQL Server 2000, regardless of the I/O throughput differences, SQL Server tries to distribute the backup data evenly to the devices. In this case, the slower disk may become a backup bottleneck in terms of performance. If increasing performance is your primary goal, you must avoid using the slow disk in striping and use disks with co ...Show All